HED4810
Assignment 5 Portfolio (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE 15
January 2025
DUE 15 January 2025
, ACTIVITIES
Question 1 - Defining Inclusive Education 1. Based on everything you learned from the module
HED4810: Putting Inclusive Education into Context, formulate a definition of inclusive education that
the Basic Education Ministry will use to develop its new mission and vision for strengthening inclusive
education. Question 2 - Barriers To The Effective Implementation of Inclusive Education Clasquin-
Johnson and Johnson (2025) note that although South Africa adopted Education for All in 1994 when
it ratified the Programme of Action adopted at the Salamanca conference, exclusion from education
persists thirty years later. Clasquin-Johnson, M.G. & Johnson, E. (2025). Training South African
teachers to include learners with autism: reflections from participants. In Halder, S. (Ed.) Handbook on
Sustainability, Global Inclusion, and Culture: Interdisciplinary perspectives. India: Springer. 2. Write a
600-word essay (2 typed pages) explaining why more than 70% of learners with disabilities are out of
school entirely in 2024. In your essay, you should identify and discuss the barriers to the effective
implementation of inclusive education. Question 3 - Recommendations To Overcome The Barriers
And Strengthen Inclusive Education 3. Many researchers have offered recommendations for
strengthening inclusive education from an Afrocentric perspective to reflect the changing paradigms
in inclusive education practices in South Africa. Provide your in-depth analysis of these
recommendations. Include the key teaching strategies, such as Universal Design for Learning, on
which teachers will be trained. Question 4: A Strategic Implementation Plan To Strengthen Inclusive
Education One of the main reasons why White Paper 6 on inclusive education (Department of
Education, 2001) has failed is that an implementation plan was never developed to translate the
policy into ACTION. In your new role, you must correct this oversight by creating a 5-year action plan
for all levels of government, namely national, provincial, and district levels. Download an action plan
template and complete it. Here are two examples, but you can design your own template: 4. Your
action plan must guide the implementation of the recommendations of five key researchers
published since 2020 and must include ALL education stakeholders. Question 5 - Resourcing Your
Action Plan 5. Develop clear guidelines for how you will resource your action plan. Include both
human and material resources. Your response should address resources at all levels, including
national, provincial, district, and school levels.
Assignment 5 Portfolio (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE 15
January 2025
DUE 15 January 2025
, ACTIVITIES
Question 1 - Defining Inclusive Education 1. Based on everything you learned from the module
HED4810: Putting Inclusive Education into Context, formulate a definition of inclusive education that
the Basic Education Ministry will use to develop its new mission and vision for strengthening inclusive
education. Question 2 - Barriers To The Effective Implementation of Inclusive Education Clasquin-
Johnson and Johnson (2025) note that although South Africa adopted Education for All in 1994 when
it ratified the Programme of Action adopted at the Salamanca conference, exclusion from education
persists thirty years later. Clasquin-Johnson, M.G. & Johnson, E. (2025). Training South African
teachers to include learners with autism: reflections from participants. In Halder, S. (Ed.) Handbook on
Sustainability, Global Inclusion, and Culture: Interdisciplinary perspectives. India: Springer. 2. Write a
600-word essay (2 typed pages) explaining why more than 70% of learners with disabilities are out of
school entirely in 2024. In your essay, you should identify and discuss the barriers to the effective
implementation of inclusive education. Question 3 - Recommendations To Overcome The Barriers
And Strengthen Inclusive Education 3. Many researchers have offered recommendations for
strengthening inclusive education from an Afrocentric perspective to reflect the changing paradigms
in inclusive education practices in South Africa. Provide your in-depth analysis of these
recommendations. Include the key teaching strategies, such as Universal Design for Learning, on
which teachers will be trained. Question 4: A Strategic Implementation Plan To Strengthen Inclusive
Education One of the main reasons why White Paper 6 on inclusive education (Department of
Education, 2001) has failed is that an implementation plan was never developed to translate the
policy into ACTION. In your new role, you must correct this oversight by creating a 5-year action plan
for all levels of government, namely national, provincial, and district levels. Download an action plan
template and complete it. Here are two examples, but you can design your own template: 4. Your
action plan must guide the implementation of the recommendations of five key researchers
published since 2020 and must include ALL education stakeholders. Question 5 - Resourcing Your
Action Plan 5. Develop clear guidelines for how you will resource your action plan. Include both
human and material resources. Your response should address resources at all levels, including
national, provincial, district, and school levels.
